In
1991 a young Muslim Harvard Law College graduate named Barack Hussein
Obama (who has denied his Islamic past and Muslim roots for as long
as he has been a public figure) became a civil rights community activist
working out of the Trinity United Church of Christ. Obama worked
as a community organizer for Trinity in poor black neighborhoods.
Trinity's senior pastor Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr, a black racist,
who preached radical Afrocentric theology and didn't mind delivering
profanity-spiked sermons found a congregation-builder in Obama. Because
of what Wright called Obama's multiple-faith background and his Harvard
education, he was a natural community-builder.

When
Obama broke onto the national political scene in 2004, not only did
he attempt to erase all traces his Islamic childhood, but he also tried
to erase the nature of his relationship with Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright,
Jr, the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ. (When your
country is at war with Islamic extremists being a Muslim is not the
shortest route to the White House.) Obama has told the media his reason
for shielding his pastor was because "...he respected Mr. Wright's
work for the poor and his fight against injustice." In reality Dr.
Wright's work was to denounce the United States as a white racist nation.
That's not good press for an African American candidate who needs to
win a majority of the white vote to win the office of President.

It
would have been not only natural, but expected, for Barack Obama�when
he decided to run for the presidency�to make the announcement from the
pulpit of the 8,500 member Trinity United Church of Christ. Obama
would later state he did not in order to shield his pastor from the
spotlight of the media. Dr. Wright has never shunned positive publicity.
It was obvious to the media�in particular the New York Times
which noted in an April 20, 2007 article that Obama was very deliberately
distancing himself from Jeremiah Wright. Instead, Obama announced his
candidacy on the steps of the old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois�where
Abraham Lincoln announced his candidacy�on Feb. 10, 2007. Obama sees
himself as an archtype of Lincoln who will "free his people from the
tyranny of the oppressor." What people are those? The inner city people
of color whom Dr. Wright believes are part of the Black Value System?
Or does he see himself as the man who will free the Muslim world from
the Great Satan since his first action, he says, as President of the
United States will be to pull all Americans troops out of the Middle
East? The voters need to figure out exactly who Barack Obama's constituents
really are because when I add 2 + 2 + Obama, it doesn't come out four.

When
Obama's early history and his Islamic upbringing was first reported,
Obama's website posted a statement dated Nov. 12, 2007 with the headline:
"Barack Obama is Not and Has Never Been a Muslim." The statement
reiterated that Obama was not a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim,
and is a committed Christian.

On
Dec. 22 at the Smoky Row Coffee Shop in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the locals
asked Obama about his Muslim roots. He said: "My father was from
Kenya. A lot of people in his village were Muslim. He didn't practice
Islam. Truth is, he wasn't very religious." That was a lie. Obama's
father and stepfather were devout Islamics. Both faithfully practiced
their religion. His stepfather, who had a much greater impact on Obama's
upbringing, was a radical Wahabbi Muslim. "My mother was a Christian
from Kansas." That was also a lie. Obama's mother, his material
grandmother and grandfather were all atheists. "They married and
then divorced. I was raised by my mother. So, I've always been a Christian.
The only connection I've had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father's
side came from that country. But I've never practiced Islam...For a
while I lived in Indonesia because my mother was teaching there. And
that's a Muslim country. And I went to school�but I didn't practice
Islam." Another lie. Obama's mother married Lolo Soetoro, a Wahabbi
extremist who lived in Indonesia. When Obama's mother moved to Indonesia�before
she married her second Muslim husband�she enrolled her son in Francis
Assisis Catholic School. He was enrolled as a Muslim because he
was a Muslim. The enrollment form required each student to choose one
of five state-sanctioned religions when enrolling: Buddhist, Catholic,
Hindu, Muslim, or Protestant. Had he been a lifelong Christian, or even
a recent convert, he�or his mother�would have circled Protestant.

When
confronted with this information, Obama said he couldn't understand
how such an error could have happened. Los Angeles Times reporter
Paul Watson, who dug into Obama's allegation of error, said "...his
former Roman Catholic and Muslim teachers, along with two people who
were identified by Obama's grade school teacher as childhood friends,
says Obama was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools
he attended. The registration meant that during the third and fourth
grades, Obama learned about Islam for two hours each week in religion
classes. The childhood friends say Obama sometimes went to Friday prayers
at the local mosque." (Something else Obama claims he never did.)
"...Obama's younger sister, Maya Soetoro, said in a statement released
by the campaign that the family attended the mosque only 'for big communal
events' not every Friday." Obama, who belongs to a church that teaches
that the Muslims of the world were wronged by both Israel and the United
States, cannot afford to be labeled as a "Muslim" by voters who expect
the United States to win the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan where their
sons and daughters are being killed by Muslims.

Jim
Wallis, a Christian antipoverty community activist and a friend
of Obama's said Obama comes from a very secular, skeptical family. His
faith is a personal and adult choice. His material grandparents�who
were professing atheists�had previously been Baptist and Methodist.
His mother's tutelage leaned towards Islam only because her new husband
was an ardent Muslim�and he demanded it.

She
was not, however, the docile Muslim housewife most Muslim men expected.
Obama's half-sister Maya admitted that her "...whole family was Muslim,
and most of the people I knew were Muslim." Because religion of
any type rubbed his mother the wrong way, when he was 10, Obama's mother
sent her son back to Hawaii to live with her parents.

In
2005 Obama met his paternal step-grandmoher (whom he calls his grandmother).
Sarah Hussein Obama, 85, who lives in Kenya. She told the New York Times
that she is "...a strong believer of Islamic faith," adding that she
still rises at 5 a.m. to pray for an hour before tending to her crops
and the three orphans she has taken in.

A
camera which caught Obama on the political stage during a fund raiser
for Sen. Tom Harkin in Iowa with presidential candidates Bill Richardson
and Hillary Clinton shows his lack of respect to this nation during
the singing of the National Anthem. Angered that the photo was released
(and because the reporter erroneously stated the photo was taken during
the Pledge of Allegiance rather than the singing of the national anthem,
Obama said: "This is the classic dirty trick. This was not the Pledge
of Allegiance. The woman was singing the Star Spangled Banner."

As
a sign of respect to their nation, many Americans place their hand over
their heart when the National Anthem is played as well as when they
recite the Pledge. In his case, Obama said "...I was taught by my
grandfather that you put your hands over your heart during the Pledge
of Allegiance. The Star Spangled Banner, you sing." Only, when you
look at the photo, its very clear that neither Obama nor the
others on stage are singing. It was, however, the singing of the national
anthem.

All
the time he was around either his father or stepfather, Obama was either
in Hawaii or Indonesia. Thus, neither his paternal grandfather nor the
father of his stepfather would have tutored him on placing his hand
over his heart during the US Pledge of Allegiance, nor the singing the
American Star Spangled Banner. Rest assured that Indonesian homes don't
recite the Pledge or sing the US national anthem. And while Hawaii had
been a State for three years before Obama was born, logic suggests its
not likely an atheist mother and an Islamic father would teach him to
recite the Pledge of Allegiance or sing the Star Spangled Banner.

In
his teen years Obama moved back to Honolulu where he lived with his
maternal grandparents. In his rebuttal, you will recall, Obama claimed
his grandfather had taught him to place his hand over his heart during
the Pledge, and to sing the national anthem. History has a problem with
that on both sides of the family. Like his mother who was an atheist,
so were her parents. Obama's grandmother, he said in interviews, "...was
too rational and too stubborn to accept anything she couldn't see, feel,
touch or count." His maternal grandfather was also an atheist who
"...had an innate rebelliousness and a complete inability to discipline
his appetites...who...experimented with marijuana and cocaine."
An atheist is not going to teach his grandson to respect the Pledge
of Allegiance which pays homage to God.

In
August, 2006 US Senator Barack Obama [D-IL] made a special trip to visit
a special man in Kenya. The man's name was Raila
Amolo Odinga. He is the head of the National Muslim Leaders Forum
[NAMLEF] in Kenya. The political party he heads is called the Orange
Democratic Movement [ODM]�although there is definitely nothing democratic
about his political party of NAMLEF. The ODM is dedicated to overthrowing
the legitimate democratic government of Kenya. Odinga is not really
concerned how he achieves his objective. It matters little to him if
he assumes power through a free election�or by revolution. But, by hook
or crook, he is determined to become the president of Kenya. If he succeeds,
he will be president for life and Kenya will become another Afghanistan.

When
the US Senator visited Kenya to meet with Odinga in Nairobi, the Kenyan
government officially denounced the visit. And, most specifically, they
denounced Obama. According to a Kenyan government spokesman, Obama's
bias for his friend was so blatant that the government found it necessary
to complain that Obama appeared to be Odinga's stooge. Not only did
Obama campaign for his Islamic friend, he convinced former Clinton adviser
Dick Morris to become Odinga's campaign adviser.

Odinga
bothers the US State Department for a couple of reasons. First, after
losing the democratic election on December 27, Raila Odinga cut a deal
for support from Vladimir Putin and the former Soviet Union. Odinga
knows he has to overthrow the government to gain power. When he lost
the election, he protested that the vote was rigged to keep him from
claiming an election he won. He incited his tribal followers to go on
a murderous rampage in towns that were primarily Christian. Throughout
Kenya, hundreds of people were murdered. What shocked the west is that
the Kenyan media�and the political power brokers within the country�out
of fear of Odinga, appear to be suggesting that perhaps the election
should be held over to stop the violence and the potential for long
term Muslim terrorism.

In
a wave of violence aimed at protesting what they call the illegal election
of newly-elected Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, a group of Christian
women and children�some entire families�barricaded themselves in a church.
Muslims, inflamed by Odinga's men, torched the church and burned to
death everyone inside. This is the man Obama campaigned for in Kenya,
and sang the praises of. This is also the man who claims that Barack
Obama is a close, personal friend. Christianity would be outlawed.

There
would be a complete ban on the public consumption of alcoholic beverages
and a ban on western-style dress for women since this type of garb is
considered immoral and an offense to the Muslim faith. Raila Obinga,
it seems, would impose the same type of Shariah law that was imposed
on Afghanistan by the Taliban. Odinga would degree that no Muslim living
in Kenya�whether a citizen, visitor or relative of a citizen of Kenya
(such as Obama, whose grandmother is a citizen of Kenya)�shall be subject
to any legal process involving the laws of a foreign country and in
particular any Muslim arrested for, or suspected of, terrorism, or of
any other international crimes shall only be tried inside the borders
of Kenya and shall be granted a competent lawyer of his or her choice
at the expense of the government.

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The
American people need to be asking Barack Obama a whole different list
of questions when they attend his political rallies on his quest to
become the leader of the free world. They need to ask the man who he
really is because, up to this point on the campaign trail, he has lied
to them. The American people need to find an honest candidate. Barack
Obama is not that man.

Jon Christian Ryter is the pseudonym of a
former newspaper reporter with the Parkersburg, WV Sentinel. He authored
a syndicated newspaper column, Answers From The Bible, from the mid-1970s
until 1985. Answers From The Bible was read weekly in many suburban
markets in the United States.

Today, Jon is an advertising
executive with the Washington Times. His website, www.jonchristianryter.com
has helped him establish a network of mid-to senior-level Washington
insiders who now provide him with a steady stream of material for use
both in his books and in the investigative reports that are found on
his website.

The
American people need to be asking Barack Obama a whole different list
of questions when they attend his political rallies on his quest to become
the leader of the free world. They need to ask the man who he really is
because, up to this point on the campaign trail, he has lied to them.